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[3Trey]

ayatollah ali khamenei

was born 17 July 1939 he is an iranian politition and cleric. He was president of Iran from 1981 to 1989, and has been Supreme Leader of Iran since June 1989 He has been described as one of only three people having "important influences" on the Islamic Republic of Iran (the other two being the founder of the republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and the president of Iran for much of the 1990s, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani).

So far his struggles are the mass protests

he was a victum of an assassination attempt that paralized his hand june 1981.

Ali's parents are an Iranian Azeri and a Yazd-native mother in Mashhad,He is second oldest of eight children, and two of his brothers are also clerics. His younger brother, Hadi Khamenei, is a notable newspaper editor and cleric.

Politics

key figure in the Islamic revolution in Iran

How he leads

government is said to resemble "a clerical oligarchy more than an autocracy."

He gives no press conferences or interviews Here is a qutoe from Hooman Majd's book He speaks only at special gatherings, such as an occasional Friday prayer or commemoration ceremonies of one sort or another. The Leader meets with foreign dignitaries (almost exclusively Muslim) but limits any televised and public words to generalities, such as Iran's support for the country (or entity like Hamas or Hezbollah) whose emissary he is meeting, Iran's peaceful and Islamic nature, and Iran's eagerness to expand trade and contacts with the friendly country in question. He pointedly does not meet with representatives of Western powers. The Supreme Leader does not travel overseas; if anyone wishes to see him, that person must travel to Iran.

He is a supporter of stem cell research

FACTORS that have made him stronger courtsy of wickipedia

factors have strengthened Khamenei in recent years: (1) A vast network of commissars stationed in strategic posts throughout government bureaucracies, dedicated to enforcing his authority; (2) the weak, conservative-dominated parliament, headed by Khamenei loyalist Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel (whose daughter is married to the Leader's son (3) the rapidly rising political and economic influence of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, whose top leaders are directly appointed by Khamenei and have always been publicly deferential to him; (4) the political disengagement of Iran's young population ....; and (5) most important, the 2005 presidential election, which saw hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad trounce Khamenei's chief rival ... Hashemi Rafsanjani ...

Candidate	Votes	%
Ali Khamenei	16,003,242	95.02%
Ali Akbar Parvaresh	342,600	2.03%
Hasan Ghafourifard	78,559	0.47%
Reza Zavare'i	62,133	0.37%
Blank or invalid votes	356,266	2.12%
Total	16,841,800

Candidate	Votes	%
Ali Khamenei	16,003,242	95.02%
Ali Akbar Parvaresh	342,600	2.03%
Hasan Ghafourifard	78,559	0.47%
Reza Zavare'i	62,133	0.37%
Blank or invalid votes	356,266	2.12%
Total	16,841,800

[Mr. Bruns]

You need to make these blogs more of your own by adding more personal thoughts/opinions. You should summarize your last paragraph in you own words. Do you understand that??